Bernardo Mosqueira (Rio de Janeiro, 1988) is a curator, writer, and researcher based in New York. He is chief curator at the Institute for Studies on Latin American Art (ISLAA), in New York; founder and artistic director of Solar dos Abacaxis, in Rio de Janeiro (since 2015); and director of the Prêmio FOCO ArtRio, Rio de Janeiro (since 2012). Between 2021 and 2023, Mosqueira was the ISLAA Curatorial Fellow at the New Museum, where he curated seven exhibitions. Between 2011 and 2014, Mosqueira organized the performance festival Vênus Terra, and between 2011 and 2015 he was one of the curators of Galeria de Arte Ibeu. In 2020, he co-founded Fundo Colaborativo, the first emergency fund for artists and art workers in Brazil. In 2017, he received the Premio Lorenzo Bonaldi per l’ Arte, an international award for young curators, organized by GAMeC, in Bergamo, Italy. His recent exhibitions include “Wynnie Mynerva: The Original Riot” (New Museum, 2023); “Pepón Osorio: My Beating Heart/ Mi corazón latiente” (co-curated with Margot Norton, New Museum, 2023); “Eros Rising: Visions of the Erotic in Latin American Art” (co-curated with Mariano López Seoane, ISLAA, 2022); “Outras Lembranças, Outros Enredos: Teixeira de Freitas Collection” (co-curated with Luiza Teixeira de Freitas, at Cordoaria Nacional, Lisbon, 2022); “Nascente” (Solar dos Abacaxis, 2022); “Vivian Caccuri and Miles Greenberg: The Shadow of Spring” (New Museum, 2022); “Daniel Lie: Unnamed Entities” (New Museum, 2022); “Castiel Vitorino Brasileiro: Eclipse” (Hessel Museum, 2021); and “Miriam Inez da Silva” (Museu da República, Brasília, 2021). In 2021, he was part of the curatorial team for the fifth New Museum Triennial “Soft Water Hard Stone.” Mosqueira holds a master's degree in curatorial studies (CCS Bard, 2021).
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